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riversedge

(70,239 posts)
Sun Jun 14, 2015, 10:59 AM Jun 2015

Clinton seeks to fire up supporters in Sioux City

Source: The Des Moines Register




Tony Leys, tleys@dmreg.com 8:26 a.m. CDT June 14, 2015



Democratic presidential hopeful, former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, speaks during a campaign house party, Saturday, June 13, 2015 in Sioux City, Iowa. (Photo: AP)
Democrat Hillary Clinton

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Sioux City, Ia. – Hillary Clinton urged supporters here and across the country to get out and help her win the Democratic nomination and then the presidency.

"Please get involved in this campaign," she said to a few dozen people invited to a house party here. Many more supporters watched via a live video sent to more than 650 house parties around the country.

Clinton noted that earlier in the day, she spoke before thousands of people in New York City. She said people at that event and across the country have talked about how they want her to help them fight for economic growth and fairness. "It took a lot to recover from the Great Recession. It was really hard on people. So many lost homes. They lost jobs. They couldn't go to college. They couldn't save for retirement," Clinton said. "Now we are standing again, but we are not yet running. And I am absolutely confident that we can run together."

Clinton's brief comments were meant to fire up volunteers across the country to help with the campaign.

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Tim Black, 47, who works in a local factory, said he agrees with her emphasis on making the economy more fair instead of only benefiting the very wealthy..............

Read more: http://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/elections/presidential/caucus/2015/06/14/hillary-clinton-visits-sioux-city-house-party/71207970/

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Clinton seeks to fire up supporters in Sioux City (Original Post) riversedge Jun 2015 OP
She will be at the Fairgrounds at 10:30 .....am...... riversedge Jun 2015 #1
Anywhere to watch her State & City speeches as she travels across the country? misterhighwasted Jun 2015 #2
I have not found a live stream. When I do they seem to be riversedge Jun 2015 #5
Probably just have to check local news stations. misterhighwasted Jun 2015 #7
CSPAN usually shows the bigger events in their "Road to the White House" series BumRushDaShow Jun 2015 #10
Thanks. misterhighwasted Jun 2015 #11
they often will show small events, too MBS Jun 2015 #17
Yes - I know during one election BumRushDaShow Jun 2015 #18
. . . . n/t MBS Jun 2015 #21
Help for economic growth and fairness - is that the same thing a free trade on a level playing jwirr Jun 2015 #3
President Kennedy said: “When considerations of national policy make it desirable to a Sunlei Jun 2015 #8
That was back in the day when trade agreements were actually about trade of goods not corporate jwirr Jun 2015 #9
If you think anything about the U.S. WASN'T about "corporate profit" BumRushDaShow Jun 2015 #12
You are absolutely correct - the issue with corpoations has always been profit. But the government jwirr Jun 2015 #13
The "systems" of the wealthy have been rigged for thousands of years BumRushDaShow Jun 2015 #15
I am not against trade agreements if they are really dealing with trade of products like they used jwirr Jun 2015 #19
The planet has been run by "empires" for thousands of year BumRushDaShow Jun 2015 #22
Just an aside: The Brown family are direct ancestors of ex-husbands family - we are NOT proud of jwirr Jun 2015 #14
K & R Iliyah Jun 2015 #4
Do you live in Iowa rpannier Jun 2015 #6
Comes across as so false... the opposite of her husband fbc Jun 2015 #16
I saw a nice post on the front page about Bernie. murielm99 Jun 2015 #20

riversedge

(70,239 posts)
1. She will be at the Fairgrounds at 10:30 .....am......
Sun Jun 14, 2015, 11:03 AM
Jun 2015




21 events
Hillary ClintonJun 14, 2015, 10:30 a.m.

Elwell Family Food Center, Iowa State Fairgrounds, 3000 E Grand Ave, Des Moines, IA

Hillary for Iowa Launch Party in Des Moines.

misterhighwasted

(9,148 posts)
2. Anywhere to watch her State & City speeches as she travels across the country?
Sun Jun 14, 2015, 11:21 AM
Jun 2015

Would love to watch them all.
Wish Her great success with her outstanding message to America.
HRC 2016

misterhighwasted

(9,148 posts)
7. Probably just have to check local news stations.
Sun Jun 14, 2015, 11:42 AM
Jun 2015

Or be linked via house parties perhaps. Good that she will have private gatherings of invited supporters followed by open forums where she will answer questions.
(How I understand it anyway)
I'll keep looking for links.
Thanks

BumRushDaShow

(129,053 posts)
10. CSPAN usually shows the bigger events in their "Road to the White House" series
Sun Jun 14, 2015, 01:06 PM
Jun 2015
http://www.c-span.org/series/?roadToTheWhiteHouse

Since we still have some time before the actual primaries, I wouldn't be surprised if all sorts of streaming sites and apps appear for following the campaign trail.

MBS

(9,688 posts)
17. they often will show small events, too
Sun Jun 14, 2015, 02:36 PM
Jun 2015

.. which can be very revealing, and are not otherwise reported in the press.
I remember seeing on C-SPAN some wonderful town hall and living-room-type events(including a house party featuring singing and warm testimony by Carole King) with Sen. Kerry in both Iowa and New Hampshire in 2003. The footage showed Kerry as someone who was funny, knowledgeable, quick on his feet, approachable, warmly (even eagerly)interested in and responsive to questions and comments by individual voters, and (though it was understandably not in his interest to emphasize that at the time) easily answering French-speaking reporters in fluent French -- stuff that the press never ever reported on adequately.
The media coverage of the 2004 election was abominable, and I don't expect that it will be any better this time.
But at least internet tools and social media are better developed than they were in 2004; as you said, we will have the streaming sites, apps, etc, and also C-SPAN, to direct voters to real facts and real events. Look for those smaller events: they're fun to watch, and they reinforced for me why, for all the complaining among the Talking Heads, and political strategists, states like Iowa and New Hampshire remain so important for the process.Early primaries/caucuses in small states provide the only chance for voters to see presidential candidates in more informal and intimate and (hopefully) less staged settings; and it's the only chance for candidates to get to know real voters (and hopefully not just those who are big donors) up close and personal .




BumRushDaShow

(129,053 posts)
18. Yes - I know during one election
Sun Jun 14, 2015, 02:42 PM
Jun 2015

they were riding on the campaign bus to an event and doing an interview.

And I agree that I definitely wouldn't rely on the soundbite "network" media to cover the intricacies of campaign stops because unless there is some sort of "controversy" that could give them a scandalous "breaking news" story, the campaign trail is essentially "boring" to them.

jwirr

(39,215 posts)
3. Help for economic growth and fairness - is that the same thing a free trade on a level playing
Sun Jun 14, 2015, 11:30 AM
Jun 2015

field? Where have we heard that before? TPP.

Sunlei

(22,651 posts)
8. President Kennedy said: “When considerations of national policy make it desirable to a
Sun Jun 14, 2015, 11:56 AM
Jun 2015

President Kennedy said: “When considerations of national policy make it desirable to avoid higher tariffs, those injured by that competition should not be required to bear the full brunt of the impact. Rather, the burden of economic adjustment should be borne in part by the Federal Government"

can search "Trade Adjustment Assistance", it has been in use for decades.

jwirr

(39,215 posts)
9. That was back in the day when trade agreements were actually about trade of goods not corporate
Sun Jun 14, 2015, 12:02 PM
Jun 2015

profits.

BumRushDaShow

(129,053 posts)
12. If you think anything about the U.S. WASN'T about "corporate profit"
Sun Jun 14, 2015, 01:22 PM
Jun 2015

during its history, try looking up the merchants who traded in tea, sugar, rum, tobacco, and most notably HUMANS, by bringing millions of Africans here as slaves as part of the oft-mentioned "trade triangles".

<...>

The Browns, one of the great mercantile families of colonial America, were Rhode Island slave traders. At least six of them -- James and his brother Obadiah, and James's four sons, Nicholas, John, Joseph, and Moses -- ran one of the biggest slave-trading businesses in New England, and for more than half a century the family reaped huge profits from the slave trade. "When James Brown sent the Mary to Africa in 1736, he launched Providence into the Negro traffic and laid the foundation for the Brown fortune. From this year until 1790, the Browns played a commanding role in the New England slave trade."[1] Their donations to Rhode Island College were so generous that the name was changed to Brown University.

http://slavenorth.com/rhodeisland.htm


I wish to hell that people would stop mythologizing this country. It's pure bullshit. I know on DU, blacks are marginalized and are still considered "goods" here, but the record needs to be corrected. Narrowly defining what is "corporate" to justify an argument is ridiculous. NONE of the trade deals were done for some angelic reason and by the charity of the dealer. They were in it, and always will be in it, for the PROFITS.

jwirr

(39,215 posts)
13. You are absolutely correct - the issue with corpoations has always been profit. But the government
Sun Jun 14, 2015, 01:48 PM
Jun 2015

has not always been agreeable to them having more profits and especially more power when it came in conflict with the needs of the people.

This bill has no protection for the worker in our own country or in the other countries. Oh sure there are words but no explanation as to how this is going to be enforced.

These wonderful corporations that you want given more power have gone into the poor less powerful nations and with the help of WTO, IMF and the World Bank totally destroyed the original economies and turned them into little plantations full of slaves. Poorly cared for slaves at that.

How do I know this - setting in with African students studying at both colleges I attended - one in Nebraska and the University of Iowa where I go my masters.

They told us how the system of small farms that fed their families was destroyed by corporations who forced them off the land and into the cities so that the corporations could grow crops for exportation to people like us in order to pay the loans that were supposed to create jobs in the cities for displaced persons. The WTO, IMF and the World Bank never created the city jobs. All that happened was that the people got poorer. Is that what we want to continue to happen when these wonderful corporations get more power?

BumRushDaShow

(129,053 posts)
15. The "systems" of the wealthy have been rigged for thousands of years
Sun Jun 14, 2015, 02:18 PM
Jun 2015

It is nothing new. Whether through familial "empires" or royalty or more formalized governmental systems such as parliamentary or republic. You see it in Communist countries like Russia and China where the traders are allowed to do their thing as long as they pay their tribute. And It doesn't matter if some entity organizations have cropped up over the centuries to shepherd it all along, but people have been exploited for forever. Governments are irrelevant to the moguls in the context of trade. These moguls have always operated around them or in consort with them. Before the World Bank, there was the Rothschilds.

IMHO, we need to keep history straight when it comes to these types of arguments.

I am opposed to the TPP and the way it is being handled (large, unwieldy multi-lateral agreements open themselves up for massive loopholes). But I do think there should be trade agreements between nations. Theoretically the U.S. has been blessed with all sorts of resources to actually allow us to completely close down to the outside. But then the risk of doing so includes the potential for other nations to plot to "take" those resources from us (in a literal war sense). So the trade issue essentially kicks that can and day down the road.

And unfortunately, "greed" is a trait that is part of a suite primordial human nature behaviors (as a survival instinct in times of famine or extreme environmental catastrophe), where some can't distinguish when one is not in that state of being that would require such hoarding (which occurs at the detriment of others).

jwirr

(39,215 posts)
19. I am not against trade agreements if they are really dealing with trade of products like they used
Sun Jun 14, 2015, 02:42 PM
Jun 2015

to be. Since the 1980s they have basically reflected the trickle down theory and globalization.

And as you say - we have always been a globe. We do not need multi-national corporations replacing nations. We do not need one world government. We have enough trouble with one government in the USA representing the differing regions.

BumRushDaShow

(129,053 posts)
22. The planet has been run by "empires" for thousands of year
Sun Jun 14, 2015, 03:10 PM
Jun 2015

In essence - "globalization". It didn't just begin with Reagan. They just "modernized" it. There have historically been "one world" governments in major parts of the world where natural resources were available.

Popular examples -

















Trade occurred between from 3 to 5 continents. These were the "one world governments" of their times. The time of today is what is often dubbed "Pax Americana". And it too shall pass like all the others.

jwirr

(39,215 posts)
14. Just an aside: The Brown family are direct ancestors of ex-husbands family - we are NOT proud of
Sun Jun 14, 2015, 01:55 PM
Jun 2015

their contribution to history.

rpannier

(24,329 posts)
6. Do you live in Iowa
Sun Jun 14, 2015, 11:39 AM
Jun 2015

If so, I hope you make it out there and have a good time
If not, maybe when she comes to your home state you can get out and see her in person

 

fbc

(1,668 posts)
16. Comes across as so false... the opposite of her husband
Sun Jun 14, 2015, 02:21 PM
Jun 2015

I think Hillary and Bill could say the same exact thing and it would seem earnest from Bill and seem like contrived political BS from Hillary.

That has nothing to do with their gender. I just think Hillary is not very good at politics and Bill was one of the best ever.

murielm99

(30,741 posts)
20. I saw a nice post on the front page about Bernie.
Sun Jun 14, 2015, 02:57 PM
Jun 2015

Not one Hillary supporter crapped in it.

Try to learn by example, K?

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